Schedule & venue

The ROFest.Trends Film Festival is scheduled to take place between the 12th and the 14th of April 2019, at AMC River East 21– Auditorium #2 in Chicago. Tickets are available online only.

Agenda

  • Friday, April 12:

7:00–9:00 p.m.: opening feature fiction screening MOROMETE FAMILY: ON THE EDGE OF TIME, by Stere Gulea

  • Saturday, April 13:

10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.: Short Movies screenings: short non-fiction movies by graduates&students of Loyola University of Chicago and Romanian short fiction movies, MICHELANGELO  by Anghel Damian, Q&A with Anghel Damian and Loyola movie authors

1:30-3:00 p.m: screening BREAKING FAKE NEWS by Marian Voicu & debate “Fake news and online disinformation in the new media landscape”; moderated by Loredana Radu, PhD, Associate Professor, Head of the Communication Department and the Center of EU Communication Studies at the College of Communication and Public Relations, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, special guests: Lee Hood, PhD, Associate Professor, Broadcast News, Loyola University Chicago & Nicoleta Corbu, Professor, PhD, Executive Director of the Center for Research in Communication, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (with the support of SNSPA & Loyola University Chicago)

3:15-5:45 p.m.: screening ONE STEP BEHIND THE SERAPHIM by Daniel Sandu

6:00-8:20 p.m.: screening I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS by Radu Jude

8:30-10:00 p.m.: screening THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS by Vlad Zamfirescu

  • Sunday, April 14:

10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: screenings: UNDER ONE SKY, a collaborative documentary by students of the Loyola University Chicago & The Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow & Romanian documentaries, Q&A with Loyola authors

1:00-3:00 p.m: screening CHILDREN OF THE DECREE, by Florin Iepan & debate “Engagement with the Communist past through cinema”;PhD, Associate Professor, Head of the Communication Department and the Center of EU Communication Studies at the College of Communication and Public Relations, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, special guests: John C.P. Goheen, Director of Photography – Producer – Editor – Educator, Professor, School of Communication, Loyola University Chicago & Mălina Ciocea, Reader, PhD, CoDiPo (Communication, Discourse, Public Problems) Research Laboratory, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania (with the support of SNSPA & Loyola University Chicago)

3:30-5:45 p.m.: screening SOUL’S REDEMPTION: A POCKET GUIDE by Nicolae Margineanu and Q&A with Bogdan Toma

6:00 – 8:15 p.m.: screening ANA, MON AMOUR, by Calin Peter Netzer

8:30 -9:30 p.m.: screening QUEEN MARIE OF ROMANIA by Trevor Potts